Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire citing Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	11	19	30
Rank change year-on-year	+8	+11	-18
Contract jobs citing Azure	171	78	24
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire	15.28%	10.58%	5.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category	41.50%	31.58%	20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	129	59	17
10^th Percentile	£392	£315	£469
25^th Percentile	£438	£401	£495
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£500	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+2.50%	-9.09%	-7.25%
75^th Percentile	£575	£593	£650
90^th Percentile	£669	£690	£738
Yorkshire median daily rate	£488	£492	£500
% change year-on-year	-0.81%	-1.70%	-4.76%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	412	247	120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire	36.82%	33.51%	27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	292	182	78
10^th Percentile	£367	£298	£400
25^th Percentile	£447	£369	£451
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£517	£497	£523
Median % change year-on-year	+4.16%	-4.98%	-9.13%
75^th Percentile	£589	£538	£589
90^th Percentile	£675	£671	£665
Yorkshire median daily rate	£500	£493	£475
% change year-on-year	+1.42%	+3.79%	-5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	-	-	£20.50
Median hourly rate	£16.00	-	£21.00
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	+7.69%
75^th Percentile	-	-	£21.50
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Yorkshire median hourly rate	£17.25	£31.86	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-45.86%	+15.85%	+22.17%

Azure Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Azure Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Sheffield	+8	167	£513	+2.50%	56
Doncaster	-7	1	-	-	3
Azure Yorkshire

Azure Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region citing Azure.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DevOps	51.5%	88
2	AWS	49.1%	84
3	CI/CD	45.6%	78
4	GCP	44.4%	76
5	Cybersecurity	38.6%	66
6	Python	37.4%	64
7	Microsoft	35.7%	61
8	Terraform	32.2%	55
9	Infrastructure as Code	31.0%	53
9	Kubernetes	31.0%	53
11	Stakeholder Management	26.3%	45
12	Agile	24.0%	41
13	Observability	23.4%	40
14	PowerShell	22.8%	39
15	Entra ID	21.1%	36
15	Problem-Solving	21.1%	36
17	Active Directory	20.5%	35
17	Platform Engineering	20.5%	35
19	Analytics	19.9%	34
19	Azure DevOps	19.9%	34
19	Java	19.9%	34
22	AI	19.3%	33
22	Software Engineering	19.3%	33
24	GitHub	18.7%	32
24	SQL	18.7%	32
26	Continuous Improvement	17.0%	29
26	Identity Access Management	17.0%	29
28	Docker	16.4%	28
28	Jenkins	16.4%	28
28	JIRA	16.4%	28

Azure Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	49.1%	84
2	GCP	44.4%	76
3	Entra ID	21.1%	36
4	Azure DevOps	19.9%	34
5	GitHub	18.7%	32
6	Microsoft 365	12.9%	22
7	GitHub Actions	7.6%	13
8	Google Kubernetes Engine	7.0%	12
9	Azure Monitor	6.4%	11
9	Power Platform	6.4%	11
11	Serverless	5.3%	9
12	Azure Data Factory	4.7%	8
13	Kong	3.5%	6
13	Microsoft Copilot	3.5%	6
15	Cloud Run	2.9%	5
16	Azure Storage	2.3%	4
16	GitHub Copilot	2.3%	4
16	LangSmith	2.3%	4
16	OpenShift	2.3%	4
16	Virtual Private Cloud	2.3%	4